WDI Progress Update - Ruby, Sinatra, ActiveRecord, Sinatra, PostGreSQL, Rails MVC

Challenges:

1. Validations, SMTP
2. Homework bugs!!! 
3. Data Validation with ActiveRecord

Progress @ General Assembly (GA)

• Sublime Text 2 (Shift-CMD-R align multiple text lines, CMD+? to comment multiple lines)
• Ruby (Object Relationship Mapping ORM)
• Rails (Model View Controller MVC architecture, Deployment to Production using Heroku with GemFile, Scaffolding with database rake migration entire CRUD apps)
• Ruby Gems - (ActiveRecord, ActiveRecord Associations, HATM, Callbacks, PostGreSQL, Validations, Bundler for deployment)
• SQL (PostGres app, commands, tables, joins, foreign keys, CRUD)
• Tapestry Presentation on Front-End Development by Phil Reither

Progress @ Intro to Startup Entrepeneurship

• Unit 1 finished on 27th Jan !! Next steps: 
• Unit 1 - Lesson 7 Independent study activities, participate in online forum, create app based on learnings
• Unit 2 - UX, can't wait to start!!

Events:

• Attended meetup Startup Sydney on 23rd Jan @GA

Curiosity:

• Tank Stream Labs (startup community)
• Behavioural retargeting
• Gamification
• RescueTime
• StrongLoop
• Grails
• Universal design principles (accessibility): Haptics, Tactus, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
• Trends API
• CSS animations
• WebGL
• WebM format
• Paralax
• Caniuse.com (compatibility checker)
• Flinto.com (IOS Prototypes, Wireframing)
• Railcasts

Off Topic:

• Magna Carta